The county of Värmland And the Leader Närheten area
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Areasquare kms Population
Sweden 449 964 9 500 000 Estonia 45 226 1 300 000 Spain 504 782 46 030 000 Hungary 93 030 9 960 000
figures from Wikipedia
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Net-workingLocal roots
Bottom-up perspective
InnovativeTransferability
Leader method
Leader Närheten
• Non governmental and non profitable organization
• Purpose to develop rural area in the Karlstad region
• Area includes the municipalities of Grums, Kil, Forshaga,
Hammarö and the rural parts of Karlstad
• About 70 000 people live within the Leader area. Half of
them live on the country-side. Half in smaller towns, with
at least 3 000 inhabitants.
Budget
The total budget for all Swedish Leader areas is about2,4 billion SEK (2,4 million Euro). This is around 7% of the budget for the total rural development program, which is 36 billion SEK.
Leader Närheten has a total budget of 29,3 million SEK (2,9 million Euro) to help developing good ideas during the program
period.
8,5 million SEK in the Leader Närheten budget are contributions from the participating municipalities.
Local Action Group
• The board of the NGO and responsible for executing the Leader program
• All sectors are represented in the board
• Even gender selection of members
• Even geographical spread to insure local roots
Strategy
Like all Leader areas, the Leader Närheten has a formal
strategy that identifies the needs of the area and how to
prioritize among project applications.
Main Themes:
• Development of trade and industry
• An attractive environment
Strategy more in detailDevelopment of trade and industry
• Enhance competitiveness in farming and forestry
• Promote entrepreneurship
• Complementary activities to farmers
• Tourism
Strategy more in detailMore development of trade and industry
• Support to a group of entrepreneurs in cooperation is permitted
• Support to trans sectorial cooperations permitted
• Direct support to a single businessman or a single company is
outside the scope of the Leader program
(Leader support must not distort competition)
Strategy in detail
Attractive environment● Enhance quality of life using wild nature and cultural setting● Create physical and social meeting points● Promote settlements in rural areas, especially located close to
towns and cities, as they are attractive● Improve infrastructure and different kind of public service
The Närheten Message
Leader Närheten dispose of funds to realize good ideas.
Local forces in cooperation may obtain financial support.
Together we will contribute to rural development.
Number of projects 2008-
Number of completed projects
Main projects 40Smaller projects in accis 1 12Smaller projects in accis 2 4Smaller projects in accis 3 21Smaller projects for young people 24Smaller projects to realize good ideas 51Totalt 152
Figures from years past…
Completed projects 2008 - 2011
Number of projects
Financing from Leader Närheten
Complementary factual
co-financingValue of
non paid work
Corresponding nr of whole time
employment (1800 hours per
person)
97 8 931 106 SEK 1 461 267 SEK 6 237 520 SEK 19,8
Participation
Numbers Numbers in %
Members in project groups 399Of these female 177 44 %
Of these young people 87 22 %
Projectmembers 1274Of these female 536 42 %
Of these young people 198 16 %
Nya företag
Nya nätverk
Nya arbetstillfällen
Bevarade arbetstillfällen
Nya produkter
Nya tjänster
Projekt som ökar antalet besökande
Projekt med ungas entreprenörskap
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
Utveckling av näringslivet
Utfall(antal)
Nya mötesplatser
Fysiska anläggningar
Livskvalité genom kultur- och fritid
Projekt om natur- och kulturarvet
Projekt för bygders gemenskap
Projekt med mål att öka inflyttningen
Projekt med IT-inriktning
Förbättrar ungas livskvalité
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
En attraktiv boendemiljö
Utfall(antal)
New companies
New networks
New employment
Maintained employment
New products
New service
New visitors to a specific area
Young entrepreneurship
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
Development of trade and industry
Experienced result
Expected result
New meeting points
Increasing quality of life through cultural or leisure time activities
Rural community
Focused on IT
Projekt om natur- och kulturarvet
Projekt med mål att öka inflyttningen
Projekt som förbättrar ungas livskvalité
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
The attractive environment
Experiencedresult
Expectedresult
Leader Närheten office
• Håkan Svenneling – ManagerHead of office, handles applications, spokesperson
• Karin Bohlin – Economy and assistansResponsible for economy and administration
• Emma Ericson – Project leader small projectsHandles small projects, public relations
• Jens Karlsson – Project leader SportfishingResponsible for a project focused on sport fishing tourism in three Leader areas in Värmland
Postal address: Box 49, SE-664 21 Grums, Sweden
Visitor´s address: Sveaplan 3, Grums
Tel: +46 555 45 99 98 E-mail: [email protected]
www.narheten.se
Contact information